Originally Posted by: Incidents HappenYou aren't a fan of the Caprices? Bah![/quote]
I'd rather listen to Rachmaninov or Stravinski but that isn't what I was saying nor is it the point.

Imperfections, interpretations and deviations from "perfect" have always made music more listenable. Cracks in a voice, a player's individual vibrato, unconscious building and slowing of tempos; these are the things that transform music from sounds that work together into something that speaks to people.

Of course, there is limit to how imperfect something can be before it start to sound like crap, but how many serious musicians think Hendrix sounds bad?

Originally Posted by: Incidents HappenNo there was a misunderstanding about Hendrix. My point was to say that Hendrix is nothing when you think outside the world of rock, that his technique is beyond horrendous. I never made a statement saying Hendrix's music didn't serve a purpose, never made a statement saying he couldn't capture people's emotions. The only ****ing thing I said was that Hendrix's technique severely limited his ability to not only play, but create. Got it? ****ing christ, you'd think he was Jesus or something.

There's several problems with what you're trying to say here:

First, with his technique (however poor or advanced one may think it is) he was able to do and create a lot of things nobody had ever heard before. And if you think he was only noticed and influential within the world of Rock, you have to be 1). out of your mind or 2). totally ignorant of what guitar playing sounded like before Hendrix vs after.

Second, near the time of his death his friends reported finding Classical records scattered everywhere with an enthusiastic Jimi saying "hey, check this out..." when they went to visit him. To suggest that you or anybody has any idea what he would have done next, what it would have sounded like and how his technique would have effected this is, bluntly, foolish. He never had a chance to do it, we can never and will never know.

Third, we KNOW that he was great at what he set his mind to, how can we know how he would or wouldn't fare at other forms of music if he set out to play it? And directly to the point of his technique hindering his ability to play other forms of music; how is hitting a wrong note and bending it into key really any different than a Baroque Jazz horn player using "flub notes" in they're playing? Isn't a sloppy technique really just another technique -- another trick in the tool bag?

This is my opinion, but to sit here and nitpick over the tequnique he chose to play with in light of the unprecidented catalytic influence he had on practically all the music that came after him -- not just Rock -- strikes me as futile, boorish and infantile.

And I'm not even really a Hendrix fan.



[QUOTE=Silimtao]Man, who was your friend hanging out with? It makes me sad to hear stories like this- hits too close to home for me. It's taken me 15+ yrs. to get out ot the "Berklee box"; I hope I can get back 1/10 of what was sucked out of me.

Just tell him to pick up his axe and just PLAY!

Well, that's pretty much what he did. I have a few good war stories no thanks to/involving him.

I haven't seen him in a while, but I've heard what he's up to (playing banjo in a "Dirt Grass" band called A Hot Day at the Zoo) and I like it a lot.